Stop Forcing A.I. into Fucking EVERYTHING!

Some Advent humor

Just learned that in Isan, Thailand, Western foreigners are called “mangoes” and I can’t say I really mind that.

A gentle breeze rocks the house of cards.

Sun Fragments

Whenever I see this come up, it reminds me of Twitter on Jan 6. There was the expected shock and outrage and a few jokes, and one little corner of LawyerTwitter going “Oh no you morons, stop incriminating yourselves!!!”

If you're ever told to be outraged about anything having to do with health insurance and the sole source of the outraged framing is the American Society of Anesthesiologists, just move on because you're being played like a fiddle by the major cause of out-of-network balance billing

I remember seeing Sweet at on a convention panel once, and there was a lot of talk about inspiration and what kinds of work artists like to do, but he was all "Nope, don't care what it is. You pay me, I'll paint it."

I will never, ever get over this.

Issue 767 Table of Contents, December 2024 locusmag.com/2024/12...

Post an Onion headline that lives in your head rent-free

In a rare alignment, the First Sunday of Advent *is* the first of December, so the “Advent” calendars are actually accurate this year. One less thing for me to annoyed about. Until next year.

Ok, so having a little sound design fun tonight. Need to get a better way of doing the audio into my phone but I like where this is going.

I love me some good memes.

Here at Bluesky I’ve collected a bunch of lovely SF/F folks who generally don’t like religion, a bunch of Catholics, and a bunch of random strangers that seemed interesting. I will now feel awkward about posting absolutely anything.

Every year I am politely puzzled by this American holiday which appears to just involve… eating dinner?

Am I going to have to go back to using Linux again? Sure, there were some good times but it was a lot of hassle too. But all this AI garbage…

(avoiding timeline suppression on other social media) are you a friend of... you know... the cerulean stratosphere

The energy I’m bringing to 2025

One way I've found to add variety my feed is to follow non-Americans. Then I hear all about their crappy politicians instead of just my crappy politicians.

Nobody’s sure why my new baby immune system decided to attack my, uh, head, but steroids seem to have settled it down for tonight at least. I’m still a mess but grateful for what reprieve I can get. Of course my sleep schedule is a joke now. Hello, Europe.

Changed the font in my Kindle app and it’s like I’ve traveled to an alternate universe

Because I love you, BlueSky, I will share my favorite picture from traveling in 2022: this sculpture of a winged iguana with two zombies fighting on its back, in the town square in Nuremberg

A colleague on Slack: "Is anyone else having trouble logging onto X?" Me: "Technical or moral?"

Gonna whoop it up tonight with a chocolate Ensure, two Tylenol, and a Xanax. 🎉

Being kind to people who can’t do anything for you.

Updated all my Apple products today (to delay the intrusion of Apple Intelligence as long as possible). Adjusted settings, etc. Nothing really fun to do. I remember when Apple updates included cool new wallpaper at least.

Drop the lockscreen

😭😭😭

Is it cool if I post videos here?

Hey guys

Your last saved meme is your moral philosophy

I tried to turn off my phone for a while but it grew tentacles, turned itself back on, and forced open my eyes clockwork orange style.

STOP THIS IS A CUTE ANIMAL PIC CHECKPOINT. PLEASE SHARE A MINIMUM OF ONE (1) CUTE ANIMAL PIC BEFORE PROCEEDING. THIS IS A PRECAUTIONARY MEASURE TO PRESERVE THE MENTAL HEALTH OF THIS SITE. WE THANK YOU FOR YOUR COOPERATION. This chipmunk at a national park that was very good at begging

Do what you have to

Not saying he’s not a freak, but I watched the video and he’s only talking about banning yellow dye #5 (tartrazine).

Aw, I got someone starting to try the “I want to buy your art” scam on me. I’m not an artist.

If you see this, post a picture taken in the mountains #photography

Usually the first Tuesday of the month is the biggest day for new book releases, but I'm seeing an awful lot of them being postponed for a week or two. 🤔

If you see this post a bridge

With everything going on, I’m going to buy myself a little treat, and by little treat I mean all five seasons of Fringe.

Deciding who I trust more, between Apple and Amazon, is a really sad calculation to try to make. At least Google is clean out of the running.

Pretty much my feeling on the matter

So. Many. Books. I'm not going to say too many books, because obviously that's not a thing. But. So many. So much work.

So is Megalopolis like Jupiter Ascending but for boys?

It’s today! Hope you’re having a funky 21st of September www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gs06...

Think I might have, at long last, found an email signature I want to use: Best, Laurel Amberdine This email was composed without the use of AI

Fascinated watching the battle between Amazon and AdBlocker. Little counter clicked up and up until it got over 100 and now it shows an infinity symbol. And that's with a VPN in my router blocking ads and trackers!